Acts 10:42 He commanded us to preach to the people
and to testify that he is the one ordained by God
as judge of the living and the dead.
43 All the prophets testify about him
that everyone who believes in him receives
forgiveness of sins through his name.
Guilt builds an invisible stage
on which unresolved anger
rehearses its soliloquy ad nauseam,
oblivious to pain, suffering
of self or others;
neither denouement nor future possible,
only incessant self-flagellation.
Compassion, the crystal spring
from which flows clarity, understanding;
river against which rage surges,
until all that remains:
joy’s tears, love’s touch,
freeing self and others to swim and float
toward the Gulf of Integrity.
© 2012 Todd Jenkins
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